| Say Anything – Alive with the Glory Of Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is so obviously about the holocaust. I’m going to analyze the song in order from this point on. It starts out talking about how he wants to do this girl who he barely knows and he doesn’t care who sees because there’s already so much chaos going on around them. Then it goes onto say that he’ll protect her and won’t let the soldiers take her. When the Germans come he won’t let the germans find them, and as the chaos thickens around them them it makes her sad but it doesn’t phase him, ironically it will remind him of just how lucky he is to have her. Wormwood is an herb that when smoked makes you high and heightens your hearing. He’s saying that they’ll get high during the day and make love, but they wouldn’t get caught because they’ll be able to hear the germans coming because of their heightened sense of hearing. Then he’s saying that Treblinka, the third largest death camp at the time, wouldn’t even stop their love for one another. He goes onto say that if they get caught and separated he’ll dream about her all the time and won’t doubt that she’ll stay faithful to him forever. If he dies it’s ok, because falling in love with her was worth all the horrible things that happened to him and everyone around him. But then he goes onto say that he won’t die, he won’t let her down like that. It’s actually quite poetic… i enjoy the poetry quite a bit, it matches the music so well. All in all great song | |
| Halifax – Scarlet Letter Part 2 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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first off, i'm obsessed with the sadness of this song, i love depressing things they make me content. Anyways, with that aside, i definitely think it is correlated directly to the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawethorne. I love that book. follow the lyrics and compare to this: he wishes he could've been there to see him commit this act firsthand, also saying that he feels dead because of this. he wants the world to know of his pain, by this i belive it's a reference to the letter from the beginning of hawethorne's book that seared the narrator's heart with pain like a red hot iron when he held it near his breast. the other man didn't realize that she was with another man, and now that he realizes the severity of this he's consumed with guilt the first man wants the other man to fess up, but for one reason or another the other man does not, and as a consequence the first man kills him. the first man finds it ironic that his dream of killing him has finally become a reality. now he talks from the wife's point of view, she walks to the living room to see what the scream she heard was from, she now see's her husband lying on the floor dead. It seems familiar because both of her lovers are now dead. the chorus repeats and now her worst nightmare/dream has now become her reality That's my take on it, i believe the part two on the title refers to the fact that things like these happen in everyday life and they will until the end of time, this is just the 2nd time someone has recanted the story. It's a subjective theory to the song's meaning, but i love this song so much. It's subjectivity is what makes it so good |
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| Bush – 40 Miles From The Sun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Gavin is so obviously talking about a disaster of sorts that has killed most of mankind. first stanza there is no where left to hide from himself. he has to face what has happened head on instead of avoiding it. He's the only one left and because of that he's going crazy and having flashbacks of his childhood (no pets were never named) second stanza He's going crazy, and the guilt from this is really starting to creep up on him because he's decided to face what has happened head on. He's too proud to admit that he is responsible, so he tries to stop thinking about it, but since he's the last person alive he has no one to help him get it off his mind, so he starts to feel guiltier about it third stanza he wishes that he could rid himself of his guilt, of his self-hate, he wishes he could procrastinate and put it off til later but he can't stop thinking about it. fourth stanza he knows he's responsible and knows that in order to take the guilt away he must kill himself like he did everyone else. He's really sad about it, but he knows it's the right thing to do. with all that said, i think he's probably talking about nuclear war, or something to that effect. I don't think he's putting himself in anyone else's shoes, i think he's expressing how he would feel if something like that happened. Thing is, he's saying if we, the world wide community, work together, we can stop the chaos that occurs in everyday life, from happening. Yet we're all too proud to let go of our egos. and that's why the nuclear war broke out, because foreign leaders couldn't admit to their faults. I've always said that if you eliminate pride and religion from the equation there would never be war. The reason he feels guilty is because he could have spoke up and said something, he could have tried to stop it but he chose not to. Now, he's forced to lose to make it right by killing himself to stop the guilt. That's what i see in this song |
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